What is Christmas really ;) I believe Christmas is a spiritual celebration within us. I do understand the whole gathering with loved ones though, I have a huge family. So very weird with 5he absence of "huge" gathering but at least there's social media, phone calls, video chats, etc. Plus , hopefully it's temporary and we can get back to 'normal ' one day. So, that being said, my motto is " one day at a time". I believe you're a survivor being a gardener ;) hoping you can see the bright side, and get though this time til when things are way better again.
This makes me feel very blessed to live in the center of the US, life was normal, the only places that required masks were stores I’m not a patron of anyways, worked every day, and took multiple vacations around the country… that said, had it not been for covid I most certainly would be sitting here enjoying the raw beauty of your life that we’re all blessed to experience through your channel. Thank you!
You asked about what vines to grow that are hardy! You have to try Russian Kiwi! They need trees to climb up or a frame! The fruits are about the sie of a large gooseberry and they taste absolutely amazing! You will get tons of fruit if you have about 5-6 vines so you get good pollination with the bees who go nuts for the flowers! The Botanical Name is ACTINIDIA ARGUTA Makes a super tastey Jam too! great for sponge cakes! Hardy down to at least -10c probably a lot more in its native lands One of mine has grown 19 feet up a pear tree so we get pears and hardy kiwi from the same spot.
Just had a look at them, they look fantastic! I tried to grow the dwarf variety 'Issac' of them a few years a go from a cutting but it didn't take.... but the big chaps sound fab! Would be perfect behind the pond maybe to scrabble all around and go mad. Thank you! :D :D
I live in Queensland, Australia and have both dark skin and yellow skin passionfruit growing. Have a great Christmas and new year. We, in Queensland, haven't experienced a total lock down, stay strong.
Do you know, i've never actually tried a yellow one. Do they taste similar or are they completely different? Hope you have a lovely, lockdown free Christmas!
Merry Christmas from NZ Jessie ,hope you have a lovely time with your family despite the restrictions. Thanks so much for the entertainment over the last few months
Roast the pumpkin with the skin on, you don't waste as much. The skin is edible too btw , I always roast or steam with the skin on and eat it. If it's too tough to eat the flesh easily scrapes out and you waste much less :-) Kiwi needs a male and female plant to fruit I believe. Merry Xmas from sunny South Australia!
I'm not massively keen on eating the pumpkin skin although you're absolutely right, i had forgotten all about doing that!... I should just cook it in the skin and peel it after! I had to do that with the Delecata squash earlier this year because a machine gun wouldn't get through their skins!! Thank you! Hope you have a lovely Christmas!
Cheers Jess have been hanging out with since vlog 1 wow 37! Champagne in your knickers Lol stay safe and take care of yourself and enjoy what you can, it’s the same over here we go into full lockdown Boxing Day looking forward to watching more in the future with you and Muma on the plot yay blessings to all. Ontario Canada Thankyou 🐝
Thanks Beverley.... I know, i can't believe we're at 37! This year seems to have both lasted for ever and gone in a flash!! Fingers crossed we can get past this Lockdown malarky by late spring and we'll all have a wonderful summer! Merry Christmas!
Tasted fab in the end! And when i watched the footage back it looked like i had some sort of instagram style filter over it, but no, it was actually that bright! I'm still envious of your butternuts though! Next year, Next year! Hope you have a lovely christmas!
Merry Christmas Jessie. Would love to hear more about what looked like fennel behind the carrots you harvested? Hoping to grow some next year. Enjoy the carrots on Christmas Day and have a thoroughly enjoyable if quiet Christmas holiday! Cheers!
Merry Christmas Ashley! The fennel is touch-and-go at the moment, some look like they are fattening up but i think a few are just going to bolt. We will see. I tend to have on/off years for them. One year they are incredible and i'm eating roast fennel with everything and then the next they do nothing! I think they are very sensitive to the weather!
Merry Christmas to you and yours, enjoyed the journey with you through 2020, and will continue in 2021. Thank you Jessie, you have been a breath of fresh air.
Hi Jessie Merry Christmas to you, your family and subscribers. Love your blogs and as long as you keeping putting them up, I for one will keep watching. Also, a huge thankyou for making this pandemic more bearable. Cheers 🍷🍷🍷🍷🥕🥕🥕🥕
I hope your Christmas is wonderful. Here I am making butternut squash for dinner, then I sit down to watch your vlog ( I drizzled mine with honey). Cheers/Prost I really enjoy what you are doing.
Cheers Jessie, love your upbeat approach to everything hope you have a lovely Christmas. Looking forward to hearing your plans for 2021 thanks for 37 weeks of great vlogs. 🥂
Thank you for sharing your lovely garden and videos with us all. We have snow here (Langley BC) so just watching videos with a cup of tea and some jelly cream cookies . Hope you and your family have a safe and Merry Christmas. 🎄🇨🇦🧑🌾☮️🥬🥕🌶💐🌶
More outtakes, Yes please. I'm going to have a sort of strange Christmas but hey so are we all, I grow my carrots off the ground (1.5m) so I don't have to cover them, I pull them when needed all through the year, I harvest the last of last year's in may and by that time I have new carrots to pull from an early sowing... just. Thanks for a great video and have a GREAT Christmas Jess and family.
Ah yeah, out smarting the little low flying chaps...! Good plan, to be honest this cover has worked a treat this year so i'll try it again next. Yes, strange one thins year but hope its still merry for you! And roll on 2021!
Well......I’ve had 3 attempts at watching this, so sorry I’m late! Glad you got to see your sister before another lockdown. HAPPY 37th‼️ yay!! Excited to see the new developments on your plot. I think you should make a swing for the girls 🐔😂 Have a lovely Christmas, & enjoy those yummy carrots 😉 oh, & I love your kitchen 😍 xx
I meant to say the other day. To block that area for privacy you could put in a few Firethorns They are quick growing and ever green. You can also make Pyracantha Tarts or Jam from the berries! Just make sure not to eat any seeds. All sorts of Birds will nest in it aswell Long tail Tits, Thrushes Blackbirds etc Its pretty much intruder proof as very Thorny. so a very useful shrub. You can leave it un trimmed or cut to shape! The more you cut it the thickcer and denser it will become loke a hedge,
As ever informative.. Funny entertaining... Keep them coming.. Make a. Big one. For plot 37......at.370....happy Christmas to you and mam n dad... And the chichens..
Jessie! Film the pie!!! 😂😂 glad it was good and congrats on the carrots and romanesco. Sorry this Christmas is crap, hope you manage to enjoy it all the same. Your vlogs have made 2020 so much the nicer, fingers crossed 2021 is better x
Hi Jess, thank you so much for helping keep me sane this year, I started my first ever allotment back in January, the upside being I’ve had loads of time to play there! Learnt so much from all your own successes and failures, your honesty is very welcome. May I wish you and your family all the very best for Christmas. And thank you so much for your generosity in sending me chillie seeds, really looking forward to growing those in my brand new Polytunnel xxxxx. Roll on 2021
Thank you so much Barbara! And that was one good thing about the year that was 2020... the amount of time we got in our gardens/plots! I hope the chillies do fantastically in the new poly! And that you have a lovely (if small...) Christmas!
Champagne i. your knickers conjured up strange visions! I discoved romanesco this week on my plot and did a number of squeals of delight, they are so pretty aren't they!
Have a good Christmas. I am on my own at Christmas, but I've had others alone in recent years so I'm fine. I'll be eating my own allotment parsnips. potatoes and brussels sprouts on my Christmas dinner. My sister lives in Australia (in Perth) and I've been over on holiday many times to Perth and Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, etc. I was over there in Perth last Christmas. Looking forward to the new growing season and hopefully we will be shut of all the restrictions (and corona virus) by March/April time.
Hope so Duncan! Even if it is on your own, how lucky we are to be eating our own veg for Christmas lunch! Yes, lets hope for the worst of it to be over by late spring and with can really enjoy the summer! Merry (if quiet) Christmas!
Hi Jess. What ever you growing by your self is great and delicious 😋🥕 I love your videos and your mum she's so sweet around the plot 😊😊. I would like to see her more often to do gardening with you. My suggestion is grapes( but you want something different). Different varieties of grapes which can eat the fruit,( even the leafs) maybe make wine,or marmalade,or even sweet for cheesecake or for a top on ice-cream. I am Greek ,so we eat grapes quite a lot 😁. Another interesting fruit is Akebia quinata. Worth to try 😊 I wish you a very merry Xmas 🎄🎅 with your family. Greetings from Eastbourne.East Sussex. Kalli 🎄🎅
Hi Kalli! Hahaha, all about the grapes. Yeah, i made Dolmas for the first time this year with my own vine leaves and it was so exciting!! Hope you have a lovely (if quiet) Christmas! :D
Being over in Essex, feeling the tier 4 and I live alone with the cats and turtles. I've spent today feeling quite lost for lack of a better word. Watching this has cheered me up. Lovely reminder that we ain't in this alone and seeing things grow! And cheers to you! Pre lockdown I had only grown a few pots with some herbs and leafs. I now have plans to be pretty self suffient from the back garden. So glad I found your channel it relaxing, relatable and full of information! And I hope you enjoy the holidays as much as possible!
Cats and Turtles sound like great house mates! Sorry you've been feeling a bit adrift, hopefully we can get past this latest lockdown and by spring/early summer we can start getting back to normal. So glad you have sefl sufficiency plans!! Thats fantastic! Hope you have a quiet relaxing christmas this year, recharging for the coming chaos of seed sowing frenzy!
Lots of dirt clinging to the carrots. As a homeowner, I worry about putting soil down my kitchen sink, so I keep a tub of water around to take away all the dirt before I bring things in for kitchen prep. I throw empty cells & pots into that tub too, clean them up a bit before washing them. Do you have a spare tub to hold some "rinse water"? It's not clean water I know, but when I don't like the way it looks, I pour it on a potted plant outside lol & fill it up again. Spares the plumbing.
I’ve only been to your area in spring and autumn so I’m not sure how cold your frosts are. We get frosts down to around -3C and maximum temps up to low 40s (I’m in Australia). We can grow purple passion fruit here but only in a sheltered positions otherwise the frost will usually kill them. Thinking of you during this very challenging Christmas. Enjoy your lovely produce and here’s to a happier one next year.
Thanks Lucinda! The last few years we have barely got down to 0 but we've have two big frosts already this winter, one was -4! I do know it's all a tad risky but i would absolutely LOVE to be able to grow them for mum. It might require further thought though! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas too. And bring on 2021!
Another entertaining and enjoyable vid. You seem much more upbeat this week compared to last week. More like the Jess we know and love. Seasons greetings to you and your family. Stay warm ,healthy and safe. x ps. glad to see the hat back.
Merry Christmas to you, Jessie. I have loved your videos this year and they have given me inspiration for my own plot. I can't wait for the Spring either and the lighter evenings. x
Hi Jessie! Christmas is in the books, off to new adventures! A kiwi would be my first choice too, but you could always train a fruit tree along the frame. Maybe a mirabelle plum? I'm looking forward to tomorrow's new vlog... Hannes 💚
Hey, I'm so glad you started doing these videos. As well as being really informative they/you are a great source of entertainment.. Thanks so much, I hope you all have the best holiday possible as we here in Ireland head back into our level 5 lockdown.. But we will all emerge sometime soon hopefully.. cheers Jess 🤜
Hi Jessie, just found your vlogs at beg of December and so glad I did. Love your vlogs, ur a real natural in front of the camera and lots of lovely info too.
How about a kiwi as a climber?( You need a male and a female for fruit. ) Alot of people have had their Xmas plans scuppered on Saturday afternoon. (WTF they invented another tier!) I hope you see your sister and her family soon. Big virtual hugs from Herts.
Thanks! Yeah, i'm really keen to give Kiwi's a go! My sister has one that is supposedly self fertile... so i will wait and see what happens to hers, lol! Merry Christmas!
You should buy a gimble off ebay to hold your phone when filming the plot tours, would make you life much easier! (And also smother videos) your plots looking tidy and giving me inspiration.... keep on digging 👊
Hahahaha, i have asked Father Christmas for exactly that, Rob! lol. So as long as he isn't self-isolating in the north pole we should have lovely glidey-smooth vlogs in the new year!
Hi Jessie Thanks for a great year of vlogs. Your so inspiring I only started with a plot this year and love watching you and your Mum every week Have a great Christmas and cant wait for more great blogs next year Take care
Another great video. Thanks for sharing all your vlogs, I really look forward to them and look forward to seeing the changes in the plot for 2021. Thanks for getting me excited about gardening again. Have a great Christmas 🎄, although it’s not going to be what most of us had planned. Roll on spring and hopefully we can all have a big get together with family at Easter.
"Thanks for getting me excited about gardening again"..... That makes me so happy! Yeah, not as planned b ut it will all be okay and year... going to have a massive christmas is August.... lol
Loved the “Making Of...” segment in this week's VLOG. Behind the scenes is a fun alternative view. Brilliant! I started gardening in 2016 but only discovered #GardeningTube this year - it’s part of my daily routine now, catching up with events around the country. I happened upon your channel at the poly tunnel build or was it the window creation maybe. Hope you keep going through 2021 too.
Thanks Tufty! To be honest, i only discovered #GardeningTube this year too... lol! I started with The Essex Allotment and went from there! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
I’d like to hear the Christmas in the cold barn story! Hope you have a good one; I’ll be starting my chillis on the first of jan and growing along. Looking forward to spring and hopefully a better 2021, all the best and thanks for the vids 👍
Thanks Clare! Lol, the story is a right 'lesson learned' one... hahaha. And Yes! Can't wait for Jan to hit and get sowing. I have to be disciplined and wait till the clock ticks over to the new year otherwise things all get a bit hectic! Have a Merry Christmas! Cheers!
How about trying honey berry, lonicera kamtschatica. They have them on the J Parker site or I just picked one up at my local garden centre. Elongated blueberry like fruit on honeysuckle type plant. Have a great Christmas and I look forward to seeing the plot tour next week. Mx
Oh, Honeyberry! I had forgotten all about them! They were on a wishlist of mine a few years back. Lovely idea, thank you! Hope you have a lovely Christmas!
Hope you and your family have a lovely Xmas. Keep making these great vlogs, Jessie. I do enjoy them. Can you please tell me where you buy your black netting? I have to try and pigeon-proof my brassicas next year. Thank you. Jan x
Thanks Jan. I will go and hunt down where i got it from but i'm pretty sure is was called Soft Butterfly Netting. I mistakenly got Hard Butterfly Netting first time round and it was like wrestling with springing tin foil!
I’m visiting my mum as it’s our first Xmas without my dear dad after losing him to Covid in April apart from that all on me own with the cat 🐱 have a wonderful Xmas thanks for lovely update cheers 🥂
It’s the 24th and IM up at 5am waiting for the daylight so I can go dig up the Christmas dinner at the Allottment and see where we are up. Your fennel is stunning it’s my very favourite beg. Wondering if you are going to do seed starting videos over the next couple Of months? I’m in the southeast with an Allottment on the south downs by the coast and no sheds greenhouses structures allowed so wondering if floor level cloche poly tunnels are any good for hardening off? I have bought some heat mats and grow lights so excited !
I'm just about to head up to do exactly the same thing Karin! Christmas Eve picking iso exciting! Yes, i'm going to be getting cracking with sowing the moment January hits. So not next vlog (that i'm filming now...) but the one that comes out on the umm... 5th! Will be all that seed sowing chatter! For hardening off, ground level cloches are absolutely perfect. When my cold frame is full i just lay the pots on a bare bed and cover them with either a moulded plastic cover or rig one up with the sheet plastic. The key is to keep them in their pots rather than plant them into the soil and they can harden off over a week or so happily before their roots are disturbed. A few years ago i tried to combine the process so i planted them out then covered them thinking it might be okay... it wasn't. lol
Hi Jessie. Happy Christmas to you and your family. I’m thinking of giving cucamelons a go. I think their a climbing fruit. Take care x yes. Just checked. Tall vine 😀
Did you just appologise for the wind blowing haha I totally lost it when you forgot to press record lol Nice Carrots! Do you ever eat the carrot tops? I prefer the carrot tops in stir fries etc Never eat parsnip tops though as they are poisonous.. I just subscribed and if I don't see a pecan pie by the spring solstice I am un subscribing! haha I just wacked the notification button! that sounded like an awesome experiment! Hope you and your family have a Happy and Prosperous new year! stay safe :)
Lovely vlog, can I ask what your other job is, is it something to do with gardening? You are very good at it. Our Xmas is going to be different , my Dad can't come over now because he is on the vulnerable list. Happy Christmas to you and your family x
Hi Julie, I used to be a gardener, that later morphed into designer. Now i'm a mould making technician for bronze and glass casting. Such a shame about your Dad but good call. Hopefully we can all be having big Christmas's in August next year, Australian style... lol
Just had to look them up! never tried them but they look in a similar vein to the Achocha? Actually thats a good idea! Thanks Julz. Hope you have a lovely Christmas!
I'm considering Physalis, some call them ground cherries. Remember my dad had one growing at the back of his garden. They tasted great and can be perennial from what I remember. Great work with the illustrations, nice addition to the vlog. Have a great Christmas.
Thanks Daniel. Oh i used to grow Physalis on roof in Kings Cross when i lived out that way and they grew like a dream. Delicious and so easy! Tried to grow them on the plot a few times and go nowhere with them! Typical! Let me know if you have any luck. Have a lovely Christmas!
Another great vlog Jessie have a amazing Christmas with mum and dad. Make sure u dont drink too much 🍷on Christmas day as it's a friday to this yr if there's anything I can do to help PM me on Instagram and I will try to help to the best of my ability
hi jessie lucky you did see your sister a few weeks ago. no video or photo of the pecan pie ? hmm sounds suspicious no evidence of one, you going to have to bake another ill taste test for you no i don't just want pie :) ;)
You shouldn’t Mention other peoples weeding shortcomings in your vlog . Some people have an allotment to chill on and its a retreat from life pressures you have just slandered them on social media . This isn’t big brother and jungle celeb . Thats bullying !
We have honeysuckle behind our pond, believe me that will surely give you a privacy wall
What is Christmas really ;) I believe Christmas is a spiritual celebration within us. I do understand the whole gathering with loved ones though, I have a huge family. So very weird with 5he absence of "huge" gathering but at least there's social media, phone calls, video chats, etc. Plus , hopefully it's temporary and we can get back to 'normal ' one day. So, that being said, my motto is " one day at a time". I believe you're a survivor being a gardener ;) hoping you can see the bright side, and get though this time til when things are way better again.
I really enjoy and learn from your videos and I really hope you keep them coming ♡
This makes me feel very blessed to live in the center of the US, life was normal, the only places that required masks were stores I’m not a patron of anyways, worked every day, and took multiple vacations around the country… that said, had it not been for covid I most certainly would be sitting here enjoying the raw beauty of your life that we’re all blessed to experience through your channel. Thank you!
Catching up on some of your videos. The end of this one about champagne 🍾 in your knickers on the sofa watching crap 📺.........hilarious 😂👍 love it
You asked about what vines to grow that are hardy! You have to try Russian Kiwi! They need trees to climb up or a frame! The fruits are about the sie of a large gooseberry and they taste absolutely amazing! You will get tons of fruit if you have about 5-6 vines so you get good pollination with the bees who go nuts for the flowers! The Botanical Name is ACTINIDIA ARGUTA Makes a super tastey Jam too! great for sponge cakes! Hardy down to at least -10c probably a lot more in its native lands One of mine has grown 19 feet up a pear tree so we get pears and hardy kiwi from the same spot.
Just had a look at them, they look fantastic! I tried to grow the dwarf variety 'Issac' of them a few years a go from a cutting but it didn't take.... but the big chaps sound fab! Would be perfect behind the pond maybe to scrabble all around and go mad. Thank you!
:D :D
Love how you care for your chickens 🐔❤
Maybe the butternut has been cross pollinated?
Yes, plusses and minuses in 2020, cheers for sure
I live in Queensland, Australia and have both dark skin and yellow skin passionfruit growing. Have a great Christmas and new year. We, in Queensland, haven't experienced a total lock down, stay strong.
Do you know, i've never actually tried a yellow one. Do they taste similar or are they completely different? Hope you have a lovely, lockdown free Christmas!
@@JessieatPlot37 some people say they are sweeter, but I think they taste the same. They are easier to grow in a subtropical area like mine.
Merry Christmas from NZ Jessie ,hope you have a lovely time with your family despite the restrictions. Thanks so much for the entertainment over the last few months
Merry Christmas!
Roast the pumpkin with the skin on, you don't waste as much. The skin is edible too btw , I always roast or steam with the skin on and eat it. If it's too tough to eat the flesh easily scrapes out and you waste much less :-) Kiwi needs a male and female plant to fruit I believe. Merry Xmas from sunny South Australia!
I'm not massively keen on eating the pumpkin skin although you're absolutely right, i had forgotten all about doing that!... I should just cook it in the skin and peel it after! I had to do that with the Delecata squash earlier this year because a machine gun wouldn't get through their skins!! Thank you!
Hope you have a lovely Christmas!
Cheers Jess have been hanging out with since vlog 1 wow 37! Champagne in your knickers Lol stay safe and take care of yourself and enjoy what you can, it’s the same over here we go into full lockdown Boxing Day looking forward to watching more in the future with you and Muma on the plot yay blessings to all. Ontario Canada Thankyou 🐝
Thanks Beverley.... I know, i can't believe we're at 37! This year seems to have both lasted for ever and gone in a flash!! Fingers crossed we can get past this Lockdown malarky by late spring and we'll all have a wonderful summer!
Merry Christmas!
That unknown squash looked great!
Tasted fab in the end! And when i watched the footage back it looked like i had some sort of instagram style filter over it, but no, it was actually that bright! I'm still envious of your butternuts though! Next year, Next year! Hope you have a lovely christmas!
Merry Christmas Jessie. Would love to hear more about what looked like fennel behind the carrots you harvested? Hoping to grow some next year. Enjoy the carrots on Christmas Day and have a thoroughly enjoyable if quiet Christmas holiday! Cheers!
Merry Christmas Ashley!
The fennel is touch-and-go at the moment, some look like they are fattening up but i think a few are just going to bolt. We will see. I tend to have on/off years for them. One year they are incredible and i'm eating roast fennel with everything and then the next they do nothing! I think they are very sensitive to the weather!
Who says you didn't do anything special for Episode 37?!
FIRST BLOOPER 😂👍 that's a Big Deal
Merry Christmas to you and yours, enjoyed the journey with you through 2020, and will continue in 2021. Thank you Jessie, you have been a breath of fresh air.
Ahhh, thanks Katharina! Merry Christmas!
One word Jessie........ Awesome,don’t stop!
I love the raw British humour!! Subscribed!! And your Mum's Australian like me!! Winning!! Nice carrots and pumpkin mate!! :-)!!
Hahahaha, thanks! Have a merry Christmas!!
Still think you have the best music, it fits perfectly🤘👌
...I too don´t have anything else to say... Wonderful as always... Cheers!!!! :))
Hi Jessie
Merry Christmas to you, your family and subscribers. Love your blogs and as long as you keeping putting them up, I for one will keep watching. Also, a huge thankyou for making this pandemic more bearable. Cheers 🍷🍷🍷🍷🥕🥕🥕🥕
Ahh, thank you! Merry Christmas to you too! Cheers!!
I hope your Christmas is wonderful. Here I am making butternut squash for dinner, then I sit down to watch your vlog ( I drizzled mine with honey). Cheers/Prost I really enjoy what you are doing.
Thanks Frank! Hope your Christmas is wonderful too!
Cheers Jessie, love your upbeat approach to everything hope you have a lovely Christmas. Looking forward to hearing your plans for 2021 thanks for 37 weeks of great vlogs. 🥂
Thanks Familly Stephens! Hope you have a lovely Christmas and roll on 2021!!
I'm trying Brussels for first time this year and hoping they turn out as good as yours
And yes,,never-ending list lol
Thank you for sharing your lovely garden and videos with us all. We have snow here (Langley BC) so just watching videos with a cup of tea and some jelly cream cookies . Hope you and your family have a safe and Merry Christmas. 🎄🇨🇦🧑🌾☮️🥬🥕🌶💐🌶
ahh, thanks Ali... Hope you have a lovely Christmas too!
More outtakes, Yes please. I'm going to have a sort of strange Christmas but hey so are we all, I grow my carrots off the ground (1.5m) so I don't have to cover them, I pull them when needed all through the year, I harvest the last of last year's in may and by that time I have new carrots to pull from an early sowing... just. Thanks for a great video and have a GREAT Christmas Jess and family.
Ah yeah, out smarting the little low flying chaps...! Good plan, to be honest this cover has worked a treat this year so i'll try it again next. Yes, strange one thins year but hope its still merry for you! And roll on 2021!
My last sowing of carrots was the same. My tiny ones will go in stir fries, after Christmas. Merry Christmas to you and mum.
Nice! Merry Christmas to you too!
Well......I’ve had 3 attempts at watching this, so sorry I’m late!
Glad you got to see your sister before another lockdown. HAPPY 37th‼️ yay!! Excited to see the new developments on your plot.
I think you should make a swing for the girls 🐔😂
Have a lovely Christmas, & enjoy those yummy carrots 😉 oh, & I love your kitchen 😍 xx
SurprIzed at the long growing season around London.
No lockdown or mask mandate here. Enjoyed the vlog.
I meant to say the other day. To block that area for privacy you could put in a few Firethorns They are quick growing and ever green. You can also make Pyracantha Tarts or Jam from the berries! Just make sure not to eat any seeds. All sorts of Birds will nest in it aswell Long tail Tits, Thrushes Blackbirds etc Its pretty much intruder proof as very Thorny. so a very useful shrub. You can leave it un trimmed or cut to shape! The more you cut it the thickcer and denser it will become loke a hedge,
As ever informative.. Funny entertaining... Keep them coming.. Make a. Big one. For plot 37......at.370....happy Christmas to you and mam n dad... And the chichens..
Hahaha, thanks Tony. Happy Christmas to you too!
Jessie! Film the pie!!! 😂😂 glad it was good and congrats on the carrots and romanesco. Sorry this Christmas is crap, hope you manage to enjoy it all the same. Your vlogs have made 2020 so much the nicer, fingers crossed 2021 is better x
Ahh, thanks Clare. (I couldn't film the pie, i would have needed one of those high speed cameras they use to track bullets it was gone so fast.... )
Hi Jess, thank you so much for helping keep me sane this year, I started my first ever allotment back in January, the upside being I’ve had loads of time to play there! Learnt so much from all your own successes and failures, your honesty is very welcome. May I wish you and your family all the very best for Christmas. And thank you so much for your generosity in sending me chillie seeds, really looking forward to growing those in my brand new Polytunnel xxxxx. Roll on 2021
Thank you so much Barbara! And that was one good thing about the year that was 2020... the amount of time we got in our gardens/plots! I hope the chillies do fantastically in the new poly! And that you have a lovely (if small...) Christmas!
Have a great Christmas Jessica and Mum. Happy New Year. Keep the great videos coming. Cheers 🥂
Thanks Mark! To you too, merry christmas!
Have a lovely Christmas !
You too, Mary!
Champagne i. your knickers conjured up strange visions! I discoved romanesco this week on my plot and did a number of squeals of delight, they are so pretty aren't they!
Hahahahah! And oh yeah, the delight of Romanesco is real!! :D Merry Christmas!
I would talk to my hens, now I only keep ducks. Birds are great for any allotment or garden.
Oh, i'm so keen to have ducks one day!
@@JessieatPlot37 they are great the eggs are so much nicer than chicken eggs (richer).
Have a good Christmas. I am on my own at Christmas, but I've had others alone in recent years so I'm fine. I'll be eating my own allotment parsnips. potatoes and brussels sprouts on my Christmas dinner. My sister lives in Australia (in Perth) and I've been over on holiday many times to Perth and Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, etc. I was over there in Perth last Christmas. Looking forward to the new growing season and hopefully we will be shut of all the restrictions (and corona virus) by March/April time.
Hope so Duncan! Even if it is on your own, how lucky we are to be eating our own veg for Christmas lunch! Yes, lets hope for the worst of it to be over by late spring and with can really enjoy the summer!
Merry (if quiet) Christmas!
Thank you for sharing your plot and knowledge Love your vlogs Happy Christmas to you and your family See you in the new year. Karen
Thanks Karen! Merry Christmas to you too, hope its lovely (if a bit quiet). Cheers!
Hi Jessie. Have a very Merry Christmas with your mum and dad.Looking forward to seeing your new videos in 2021.
Thanks Eric! Merry Christmas to you too!
Hi Jess.
What ever you growing by your self is great and delicious 😋🥕
I love your videos and your mum she's so sweet around the plot 😊😊. I would like to see her more often to do gardening with you.
My suggestion is grapes( but you want something different). Different varieties of grapes which can eat the fruit,( even the leafs) maybe make wine,or marmalade,or even sweet for cheesecake or for a top on ice-cream. I am Greek ,so we eat grapes quite a lot 😁. Another interesting fruit is Akebia quinata. Worth to try 😊
I wish you a very merry Xmas 🎄🎅 with your family.
Greetings from Eastbourne.East Sussex. Kalli 🎄🎅
Hi Kalli! Hahaha, all about the grapes. Yeah, i made Dolmas for the first time this year with my own vine leaves and it was so exciting!! Hope you have a lovely (if quiet) Christmas! :D
Being over in Essex, feeling the tier 4 and I live alone with the cats and turtles. I've spent today feeling quite lost for lack of a better word. Watching this has cheered me up. Lovely reminder that we ain't in this alone and seeing things grow!
And cheers to you! Pre lockdown I had only grown a few pots with some herbs and leafs. I now have plans to be pretty self suffient from the back garden. So glad I found your channel it relaxing, relatable and full of information! And I hope you enjoy the holidays as much as possible!
Cats and Turtles sound like great house mates! Sorry you've been feeling a bit adrift, hopefully we can get past this latest lockdown and by spring/early summer we can start getting back to normal. So glad you have sefl sufficiency plans!! Thats fantastic!
Hope you have a quiet relaxing christmas this year, recharging for the coming chaos of seed sowing frenzy!
I enjoyed this so much. Thankful i found your channel 🖤
Lots of dirt clinging to the carrots. As a homeowner, I worry about putting soil down my kitchen sink, so I keep a tub of water around to take away all the dirt before I bring things in for kitchen prep. I throw empty cells & pots into that tub too, clean them up a bit before washing them. Do you have a spare tub to hold some "rinse water"? It's not clean water I know, but when I don't like the way it looks, I pour it on a potted plant outside lol & fill it up again. Spares the plumbing.
I’ve only been to your area in spring and autumn so I’m not sure how cold your frosts are. We get frosts down to around -3C and maximum temps up to low 40s (I’m in Australia). We can grow purple passion fruit here but only in a sheltered positions otherwise the frost will usually kill them.
Thinking of you during this very challenging Christmas. Enjoy your lovely produce and here’s to a happier one next year.
Thanks Lucinda! The last few years we have barely got down to 0 but we've have two big frosts already this winter, one was -4! I do know it's all a tad risky but i would absolutely LOVE to be able to grow them for mum. It might require further thought though!
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas too. And bring on 2021!
Another entertaining and enjoyable vid. You seem much more upbeat this week compared to last week. More like the Jess we know and love. Seasons greetings to you and your family. Stay warm ,healthy and safe. x ps. glad to see the hat back.
Hahahaha, thanks Larry! Seasons Greetings to you too!
Have a great Christmas beautiful . Look forward to many more vids 👍
Thanks Paul, you too!
Merry Christmas to you, Jessie. I have loved your videos this year and they have given me inspiration for my own plot. I can't wait for the Spring either and the lighter evenings. x
Hi Jessie! Christmas is in the books, off to new adventures!
A kiwi would be my first choice too, but you could always train a fruit tree along the frame. Maybe a mirabelle plum?
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's new vlog... Hannes 💚
Hey, I'm so glad you started doing these videos. As well as being really informative they/you are a great source of entertainment.. Thanks so much, I hope you all have the best holiday possible as we here in Ireland head back into our level 5 lockdown.. But we will all emerge sometime soon hopefully.. cheers Jess 🤜
Ahh, thanks Cathal! Lockdowns, lockdowns everywhere!! I hope you have a lovely (if quiet) Christmas!
Hi Jessie, just found your vlogs at beg of December and so glad I did. Love your vlogs, ur a real natural in front of the camera and lots of lovely info too.
Cheers from North Las Vegas, NV! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year🎄🙏🏽🥳
Cheers! Happy Christmas to you too Donna!!
How about a kiwi as a climber?( You need a male and a female for fruit. ) Alot of people have had their Xmas plans scuppered on Saturday afternoon. (WTF they invented another tier!) I hope you see your sister and her family soon. Big virtual hugs from Herts.
Thanks! Yeah, i'm really keen to give Kiwi's a go! My sister has one that is supposedly self fertile... so i will wait and see what happens to hers, lol!
Merry Christmas!
You should buy a gimble off ebay to hold your phone when filming the plot tours, would make you life much easier! (And also smother videos) your plots looking tidy and giving me inspiration.... keep on digging 👊
Hahahaha, i have asked Father Christmas for exactly that, Rob! lol. So as long as he isn't self-isolating in the north pole we should have lovely glidey-smooth vlogs in the new year!
Haha fingers crossed!
Have a lovely Christmas Jessie xx
You too Michelle!
bless ya Jessie, happy christmas to you and your family and look forward to more from you in the future xx
Thanks Trevor! Hope you have a lovely Christmas too!
Cheers Merry Yule and Happy Christmas to you and your family !!!!
My friend has made her chickens a swing from a small plank and some ropes 🙂
Another great vlog lovely...Have a relaxed and peaceful Christmas xx love Helen xx
You too, Helen. Quiet but relaxed is the name of the game this year i think! Then we leap in to spring all guns blazing!
Hi Jessie
Thanks for a great year of vlogs.
Your so inspiring I only started with a plot this year and love watching you and your Mum every week
Have a great Christmas and cant wait for more great blogs next year
Take care
Thanks Ray! And congratulations on your first year of having a plot! I think 2021 is going to be a great growing year. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Jessie and Family :-) looking forward to your 2021 videos...
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you too!
Another great video. Thanks for sharing all your vlogs, I really look forward to them and look forward to seeing the changes in the plot for 2021. Thanks for getting me excited about gardening again. Have a great Christmas 🎄, although it’s not going to be what most of us had planned. Roll on spring and hopefully we can all have a big get together with family at Easter.
"Thanks for getting me excited about gardening again"..... That makes me so happy!
Yeah, not as planned b ut it will all be okay and year... going to have a massive christmas is August.... lol
Cheers Jessie, Wishing you aMerry Christmas and a Fruitful New Year
Cheers! Merry Xmas to you and yours. Thanks for the entertainment throughout the year.
Thanks Woolfy! Merry Christmas to you too!
Loved the “Making Of...” segment in this week's VLOG. Behind the scenes is a fun alternative view. Brilliant! I started gardening in 2016 but only discovered #GardeningTube this year - it’s part of my daily routine now, catching up with events around the country. I happened upon your channel at the poly tunnel build or was it the window creation maybe. Hope you keep going through 2021 too.
Thanks Tufty! To be honest, i only discovered #GardeningTube this year too... lol! I started with The Essex Allotment and went from there! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
I’d like to hear the Christmas in the cold barn story! Hope you have a good one; I’ll be starting my chillis on the first of jan and growing along. Looking forward to spring and hopefully a better 2021, all the best and thanks for the vids 👍
Thanks Clare! Lol, the story is a right 'lesson learned' one... hahaha. And Yes! Can't wait for Jan to hit and get sowing. I have to be disciplined and wait till the clock ticks over to the new year otherwise things all get a bit hectic! Have a Merry Christmas! Cheers!
You literally just described my Christmas plans! Have a good Christmas, I really enjoy your vlogs.
Hahahahaha, excellent! :D Merry Christmas!!
I told you about my kiwifruit success last time shell made Membrillo with it Spanish recipe
How about trying honey berry, lonicera kamtschatica. They have them on the J Parker site or I just picked one up at my local garden centre. Elongated blueberry like fruit on honeysuckle type plant.
Have a great Christmas and I look forward to seeing the plot tour next week. Mx
Oh, Honeyberry! I had forgotten all about them! They were on a wishlist of mine a few years back. Lovely idea, thank you! Hope you have a lovely Christmas!
Happy Christmas to you and your family. Why not try hanging baskets with strawberries on cross beams. Love the hat! Polly tunnel plans?
................... what an excellent idea!!!!
So many poly tunnel plans! So many plans for spring in general! :D
Hope you and your family have a lovely Xmas. Keep making these great vlogs, Jessie. I do enjoy them. Can you please tell me where you buy your black netting? I have to try and pigeon-proof my brassicas next year. Thank you. Jan x
Thanks Jan. I will go and hunt down where i got it from but i'm pretty sure is was called Soft Butterfly Netting. I mistakenly got Hard Butterfly Netting first time round and it was like wrestling with springing tin foil!
And Merry Christmas!
Cheers!🥂 Have a lovely Christmas!
Thank you! You too, Caz! Cheers!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful vlogs.. Have a lovely Christmas.. 😄
Thank you! Hope you have a lovely Christmas too Lorraine!
Merry Christmas to you all!
Merry Christmas to you too!
I’m visiting my mum as it’s our first Xmas without my dear dad after losing him to Covid in April apart from that all on me own with the cat 🐱 have a wonderful Xmas thanks for lovely update cheers 🥂
Merry Christmas Jessie, fingers crossed for the new year and looking forward to getting some seeds back in 👍
Thanks Carl, and ditto! I'm so looking forward to it! Merry Christmas, and Cheers!
It’s the 24th and IM up at 5am waiting for the daylight so I can go dig up the Christmas dinner at the Allottment and see where we are up. Your fennel is stunning it’s my very favourite beg. Wondering if you are going to do seed starting videos over the next couple
Of months? I’m in the southeast with an Allottment on the south downs by the coast and no sheds greenhouses structures allowed so wondering if floor level cloche poly tunnels are any good for hardening off? I have bought some heat mats and grow lights so excited !
I'm just about to head up to do exactly the same thing Karin! Christmas Eve picking iso exciting!
Yes, i'm going to be getting cracking with sowing the moment January hits. So not next vlog (that i'm filming now...) but the one that comes out on the umm... 5th! Will be all that seed sowing chatter!
For hardening off, ground level cloches are absolutely perfect. When my cold frame is full i just lay the pots on a bare bed and cover them with either a moulded plastic cover or rig one up with the sheet plastic. The key is to keep them in their pots rather than plant them into the soil and they can harden off over a week or so happily before their roots are disturbed. A few years ago i tried to combine the process so i planted them out then covered them thinking it might be okay... it wasn't. lol
Wishing you a wonderful yule and New year hope it's a great growing season just around the corner, great vid keep being awesome🤘👌
Thank you, you too! I'm so excited for spring 2021!
How about tomatillos?? Did them lastvyear..fascinating to grow, superveqsy, g8 salsa and weirdly nice fresh... not permanent though..
I was given some tomatillos last year but it was so late in the season they didn't really come to much! Definitely going to try again this year!
I’ve been growing self fertile kiwi. It’s looking good, but only in its first year.
Jess I keep throwing a load of leaves in with my two plus a spade of dirt and grass for them to attack white chick escaped twice yesterday
Great idea. I just copied you and threw a load of leaf mould in their house. They found it very entertaining!!
Hi Jessie. Happy Christmas to you and your family. I’m thinking of giving cucamelons a go. I think their a climbing fruit. Take care x yes. Just checked. Tall vine 😀
Merry Christmas to you and yours. I've really enjoyed your vlogs this year.
:D Thanks! Hope you have lovely, if a bit quiet, Christmas!!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Kyle!
Watched all your vlogs, thank you x really look forward to them, merry Xmas hope you have a lovely day
Thank you! :D Hope your christmas is lovely too.
Did you just appologise for the wind blowing haha I totally lost it when you forgot to press record lol Nice Carrots! Do you ever eat the carrot tops? I prefer the carrot tops in stir fries etc Never eat parsnip tops though as they are poisonous.. I just subscribed and if I don't see a pecan pie by the spring solstice I am un subscribing! haha I just wacked the notification button! that sounded like an awesome experiment! Hope you and your family have a Happy and Prosperous new year! stay safe :)
:D Hello! No, i don't eat the carrot tops. I tried making carrot-tops pesto and i wasn't impressed. But yes, i'm on it with the pecan pie! :D
Jess that's how I plant carrot get the same results life's too short just eat em not look at them
Hahahah!! Yep!!!
Lovely vlog, can I ask what your other job is, is it something to do with gardening? You are very good at it. Our Xmas is going to be different , my Dad can't come over now because he is on the vulnerable list. Happy Christmas to you and your family x
Hi Julie, I used to be a gardener, that later morphed into designer. Now i'm a mould making technician for bronze and glass casting.
Such a shame about your Dad but good call. Hopefully we can all be having big Christmas's in August next year, Australian style... lol
I don't know if you can grow chokos there?
Just had to look them up! never tried them but they look in a similar vein to the Achocha? Actually thats a good idea! Thanks Julz. Hope you have a lovely Christmas!
I'm considering Physalis, some call them ground cherries. Remember my dad had one growing at the back of his garden. They tasted great and can be perennial from what I remember.
Great work with the illustrations, nice addition to the vlog. Have a great Christmas.
Thanks Daniel. Oh i used to grow Physalis on roof in Kings Cross when i lived out that way and they grew like a dream. Delicious and so easy! Tried to grow them on the plot a few times and go nowhere with them! Typical! Let me know if you have any luck.
Have a lovely Christmas!
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Another great vlog Jessie have a amazing Christmas with mum and dad. Make sure u dont drink too much 🍷on Christmas day as it's a friday to this yr if there's anything I can do to help PM me on Instagram and I will try to help to the best of my ability
Thanks Hamish! Merry Christmas to you and your family too!
a year later and we stil have covid restrictions lol
hi jessie lucky you did see your sister a few weeks ago. no video or photo of the pecan pie ? hmm sounds suspicious no evidence of one, you going to have to bake another ill taste test for you no i don't just want pie :) ;)
You shouldn’t Mention other peoples weeding shortcomings in your vlog . Some people have an allotment to chill on and its a retreat from life pressures you have just slandered them on social media . This isn’t big brother and jungle celeb . Thats bullying !